v0.7.0-beta.0

[bettio]

This is an alpha release, the third pre-release on the road to v0.7.0.

Please read the getting started guide for flashing instructions.

Added

• Added filename:dirname/1, filename:basename/1,2, filename:extension/1, filename:rootname/1,2 and filename:join/2
• Added init:get_arguments/0
• Added atomvm:posix_kill/2 to send a signal to a process, typically one started with atomvm:subprocess/4
• Added Erlang distribution over serial (uart)
• Added WASM32 JIT backend for Emscripten platform
• Added network:wifi_scan/0,1 to ESP32 network driver to scan available APs when in sta or sta+ap mode.
• Added support for nif_start, executable_line and debug_line opcodes
• Added named variable debugging support in DWARF when modules are compiled with beam_debug_info
• Added more reset reasons and ensured esp:reset_reason/0 doesn't return undefined
• Added I2C, SPI and UART APIs to stm32 platform
• Added Transfer-Encoding: chunked response support to ahttp_client, including HTTP trailers
• Added proc_lib:init_fail/2,3
• Added UART API to rp2 platform
• Added "USB_SERIAL_JTAG" peripheral to the ESP32 uart module on chips with a built-in
  USB-Serial-JTAG controller (C3/C5/C6/C61/H2/H21/H4/P4/S3)
• Added support for the safe option in erlang:binary_to_term/2
• Added support for process aliases: erlang:alias/0,1, erlang:unalias/1,
  erlang:monitor/3 with the {alias, Mode} option, spawn_opt {monitor, MonitorOpts} and
  sending to an alias reference
• Added xtensa JIT backend for esp32 platform
• Added support for configuring pins and width for sdmmc on ESP32
• Added support for map comprehensions
• Added USB CDC port drivers for ESP32, RP2, and STM32 platforms
• Added a Linux gpio driver for the generic_unix port (in avm_unix) using sysfs
• Added console:print_err/1 to write to standard error
• Added support for process_info/1 and process_info/2 with list argument
• Added erlang:term_to_binary/2, erlang:is_builtin/3 and erlang:bitstring_to_list/1
• Added lists:mapfoldr/3
• Added emscripten:run_script_tracked/1 and emscripten:get_tracked/2 to hold handles to
  JavaScript values from Erlang, tying the JavaScript value lifetime to the Erlang term lifetime.
  The emscripten module object gained trackedObjectsMap, nextTrackedObjectKey() and the
  onRunTrackedJs, onGetTrackedObjects and onTrackedObjectDelete hooks, which embedders may
  override to customize what tracking means
• Added string:to_integer/1
• Added Esp.ADC Elixir module with the low level ADC NIFs (init/0, deinit/1,
  acquire/4, release_channel/1 and sample/3), which were registered natively but had
  no Elixir source
• Added LEDC.fade_stop/2, LEDC.set_duty_and_update/4, LEDC.set_fade_step_and_start/6,
  LEDC.set_fade_time_and_start/5 and GPIO.set_function/2, which were registered natively
  but missing from the Elixir modules
• Added a supported_api build target that generates funcs.txt and instructions.txt,
  describing the functions and the BEAM instructions supported by the configured build
• Added a check-native-stubs build target, run in CI, that verifies every function
  registered in bifs.gperf or nifs.gperf has a matching Erlang export
• Added a hex_package build target that builds the atomvm Hex package, published on
  hex.pm by CI when a release is tagged, so that build tools can check a project against
  the AtomVM release it targets

Changed

• erlang:process_info/2 now accepts only pids of local processes, as Erlang/OTP does:
  calling it with a port now raises badarg (previous versions accepted any id-carrying
  term, so it could be used to read port information; there is no erlang:port_info/2
  in AtomVM yet to migrate such code to)
• Updated network type db() to dbm() to reflect the actual representation of the type
• Use ES6 modules for emscripten port, using .mjs suffix
• ahttp_client now returns {error, {parser, incomplete_response}} when a socket closes mid-response
  (previously silently reported closed); ssl_closed messages are also handled
• ahttp_client now returns {error, {parser, {conflicting_content_length, V}}} when a response
  carries differing Content-Length values (previously silently accepted the last one),
  per RFC 9112 §6.3
• ahttp_client now emits a done event for responses with Content-Length: 0 (previously
  the parser stayed in body state forever, hanging passive callers and misflagging legitimate
  close as incomplete_response)
• ahttp_client now discards bytes past Content-Length and transitions to done (previously
  emitted the excess as body data and stalled the parser when the socket delivered more than
  the promised byte count)
• ahttp_client now caps parsed status, header and chunk-size lines at 16 KiB (?MAX_LINE_SIZE);
  longer lines return {error, {parser, {line_too_long, Prefix}}} with the first 128 bytes of
  the offending line. Callers whose upstream servers emit unusually large headers must account
  for this limit
• Replaced the exavmlib Protocol module with a small runtime shim (only Protocol.__concat__/2),
  saving ~31 KB of flash. ExAtomVM uses precompiled, unconsolidated protocols and continue to function normally at runtime.
• Deprecated the C macro REF_SIZE: use TERM_BOXED_REFERENCE_SHORT_SIZE for references built
  from ref ticks, TERM_BOXED_REFERENCE_PROCESS_SIZE for process references (aliases), or
  TERM_BOXED_REFERENCE_MAX_SIZE to fit any reference. REF_SIZE still expands to the short
  reference size, but now emits a compiler warning
• On ESP32 platform, when starting wifi as a station (client), disable wifi power save so TCP servers are reachable

Removed

• Removed ahttp_client support for obsolete line folding (RFC 9112 §5.2); folded header and
  trailer lines now return {error, {parser, deprecated_obs_fold}}, and the
  header_continuation / trailer_header_continuation response events are no longer emitted

Fixed

• Fixed generic_unix and emscripten builds with AVM_DISABLE_SMP=ON and task drivers enabled
• Fixed supervisor starting a child from a specification carried in a message, letting any
  process make a supervisor call an arbitrary function
• Fixed supervisor leaving children unrestarted when a message reached it during a
  one_for_all restart or before a failed restart was retried
• Route io:put_chars(standard_error, ...) and io:format(standard_error, ...) to stderr instead
  of aliasing them to standard_io (diagnostics no longer pollute an escript's stdout)
• Stop using deprecated term_from_int32 on STM32 platform
• Stop using deprecated term_from_int32 on RP2 platform
• Stop using deprecated term_from_int32 on ESP32 platform
• Fixed improper cast of ESP32 event_data for WIFI_EVENT_AP_STA(DIS)CONNECTED events
• Fixed ESP32 SNTP synchronization events posting only a pointer-sized payload instead of the
  full timeval, so {sntp_sync, {Sec, USec}} now includes both timestamp fields
• erlang:system_info(system_architecture) now reports normalized arch-vendor-os strings
• Fixed ahttp_client crash on non-numeric or negative Content-Length values
• Fixed ahttp_client crash on headers with empty or all-whitespace values
• Fixed a bug in supervisor handling of failing child
• Fixed two bugs related to closing fds in atomvm:subprocess/4
• Fixed message_queue_len (as reported by erlang:process_info/2): unprocessed signals,
  such as monitor or unlink requests, were counted as queued messages
• Fixed a process hanging forever after catching an exception raised asynchronously by a
  trapping BIF: the trap flag was left set, so the process parked at the next scheduling
  point and never ran again
• Fixed erlang:localtime/1 memory leak, use-after-free, and TZ restore bugs on newlib/picolibc
• Fixed ESP32 I2C driver resource leaks, half-closed state, and close-during-transmission errors
• Fixed several underallocation issues that could trigger data corruption on binary:replace, zlib:compress and bsd socket recv code.
• Fixed a bug where catch would raise on regular atom results
• Fixed ESP32 socket driver holding the global socket-list lock across blocking TCP connects, leaking the port on connect failure, losing concurrent accept waiters, leaking netbuf on receive error paths, and a recycled-netconn race between socket close and the event handler
• Fixed generic_unix TCP server sockets performing an abortive close that could truncate replies awaiting ack
• Fixed a JIT crash (EXC_BAD_ACCESS/SIGBUS) on Apple Silicon
• Fixed the ESP32 event poller re-blocking after running a listener, which could delay a process
  readied by a driver (e.g. an active-mode socket message) until the next event or timer tick
• Fixed term_from_resource failing to compile from C++
• Fixed a bug where negative or oversized segment sizes were not rejected in binary matching
• Fixed the network mdns configuration to read the documented host key; the previously
  required, undocumented hostname key is still accepted
• Fixed term_is_uint32 accepting big integers whose low 64 bits are within range on 32-bit
  builds, which made erlang:crc32/2, erlang:crc32_combine/3 and crypto:pbkdf2_hmac/5
  silently truncate huge integer arguments instead of raising badarg
• Fixed a bug where bigints were not normalized, yielding equality errors
• Fixed esp_adc:sample/2,3 answering a bare atom such as timeout on a read failure, where
  every other ADC function and its own documentation answer {error, Reason}
• Fixed Elixir map.field raising undef instead of KeyError or BadMapError when the key is
  missing or the term is not a map, and the deprecated map.field() form raising undef always,
  by adding the elixir_erl_pass runtime helpers that compiled Elixir code calls
• Fixed maps:from_keys/2 (and sets:from_list/1, which is built on top of it) not
  deduplicating structurally equal but separately-allocated boxed terms, such as tuples

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